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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Seems success of M$ in its combat with OS community. If it will kill KDE4 many people will drop Linux - cause they now are more KDE4 users than Linux users. Today Linux is promoted on a base of some candy for eyes. Look around - almost every major distro is doing like that. And 'user friendliness'. Eg. nowadays ubuntu reached the level of stupidity compared to all M$ systems. If you want some help click here, click there, window will open, mark "the foo" "the bar" leave epmty, press enter or click right mouse button (and your computer will blow up) - doesn't work?

KDE is still supported by Novell, and the OpenSUSE team, since is has like slackware KDE as default DE. And when Nokia will stop developing Qt, it will still be open source. Geeks can always continue to support it. And after all, Qt is stable already, and has lots of features. Why trying to change a winning team.

While i prefer the GNOME UI in general myself too, i dont see that happening any time soon.
And theres many reasons, like:

GNOME cant be installed properly using pkgtools. Its way too complex and modular for that. It may be done using something like an SBo queue file for example but still..
On top of being modular its development model is very confusing. Its extremely difficult keeping track of all the versioned dependencies between its core modules, especially for the last couple of years, ever since they started working on making GNOME 3 reality.

Personally id be happy if koffice was replaced with a libreoffice source build, assuming we cant have both.

But GNOME can be installed via GSB which uses "native Slackware tools, like installpkg, upgradepkg and removepkg".

Without slapt-get's dependency resolution?
I think it could only be possible if you follow a certain order of packages you installed.
Which would make it innapropriate eg. for the Slackware installer.
Unless there were things like eg. aaa_gconf.

Hey guys,
stay focus. If you want to discuss a future of gnome in slackware - let open a new thread - no one is really interested in your desktop preferences.

And, may I say, if KDE4 will be killed by M$ by this deal with Nokia, why the hell this won't happen to Gnome? The scenario may be different but gnome can be as dead as KDE4. About Novel - someone forget that it is already in one bed with M$. So, better don't count on it.